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image by Željko Heimer, 5 January 2009
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The flag is blue, ratio 1:2, with the city coat of arms in the
middle. The Coat of Arms is blue, with white
massoned walls and red tower, crowned with golden crown and
cross, all between two white double fleurs de lys. There is also
a golden ornament under the walls, which is, As far as I know,
not part of the blazon, but for ornamental purposes (and
certainly part of the official Coat of Arms).
The whole shield is outlined golden.
The image is from my pages, and quite possibly incorrect in
details (shades, proportions), but fair enough.
Željko Heimer, 23 September 1999
The coat of arms of the City of Koprivnica is the historical
coat of arms of the free royal city of Koprivnica. The decision
of the civic assembly described the coat of arms: "In
semicircular shield of blue field a white tower without gates
embattled and with carved columns. Above the tower there is a
yellow royal (Anjou) crown, and to the left and right each a
double yellow fleur-de-lis also symbolising the Anjou house that
granted the free royal city status to Koprivnica." The flag
is light blue with the coat of arms in the middle. The ceremonial
flag is vertical version of the light blue flag ending in
swallowtail and bordered with yellow along all edges. Adopted:
around 1995 ?
Source: www.koprivnica.hr, visied 03. 10. 2000.
Željko Heimer
There is nothing beneat the white tower (as I said there is in
1999). The coat of arms in the flag is bordered yellow. The Vertical-Ceremonial Flag is used only as table
flag, even if the "real-size" is planned, it was never
(yet?) made, as I learned talking with Mr. Ernecic, curator of
the Koprivnica City Museum.
The modern design of the Coat of Arms and the
flag (i.e. artistic redention based on historic pattern) is made
by Draženka Jalšic Ernecic, kunsthistorian from
Koprivnica (and incidentally wife of Mr. Ernecic). She designed
several other flags and Coat of Arms in the county.
The flag is adopted some time in 1996, and was approved by the
Ministry of administration on 12. July 1996.
Source: [ern03]
Željko Heimer, 19 May 2003
As we already knew that the flag was adopted in 1996, this is
confirmed with a newer decision amending the original 1996
decision issued in the official
gazette of the city: Odluka o izmjenama Odluke o grbu i
zastavi Grada Koprivnice, 26.9.2002, Glasnik Grada Koprivnice,
br. 9/02, 27. rujna 2002.
This decision refers to the orginal adoption of the Coat of Arms
and the flag: Odluka o grbu i zastavi Grada Koprivnice, Glasnik
Grada Koprivnice, br. 1/96, and its amendment in the subsequent
issue of the gazette 2/96, however these 1996 decision are not
available on line.
The 2002 decision invalidates the 2/96 decision, and by that we
may assume with large assurance that the amendments of the 2/96
decision where just as minor as the 2002 decision, so we should
look for the 1/96 decision for the major corps of the
legislation. Namely, the 2002 decision only changes some numbers
in the determinations on fines, and invaldiates the 2/96
decision.
A vectorized detailed drawing of the Coat of Arms may be found in
the in the official
gazette. The updated drawing include more detailed images of
the crown and the fleurs-de-lis.
Željko Heimer, 14 December 2008 and 5 January 2009
The web site at <library.foi.hr>
include a project of digitazing of the regional journal Glas
Podravine, from its first issues in 1951.
- Article
from 1971 is on the 50th anniversary of visit of Stjepan
Radic, leader of the Croatian Peasant's Party (HSS) to Koprivnica
- the photo from the event in 1921 shows large Croatian
tricolours used at the event.
- Article
from 1972 may be more interesting to politologues and
hsitorians, but it includes a report from general Bobetko (later
a leading Croatian general in early 1990's, originating from the
region) that some political structures in Zagreb do not look
fondly to the Koprivnica region, being accused that they "do
not raise national flags and coats of arms as much as in some
other parts of Croatia". This was political turbulent times
after the break down of the 1971 "Croatian spring"
movement.
- In Article
from 1973 there is a report on production of the historical
1545 and the modern "created after the liberation"
coats of arms of Koprivnica as souvenirs made of clay. Artist is
Josip Turkovic. A table flags were also reportedly produced, but
no further details of their design.
- Another Article
from 1973 reports on the establishment of a basketball club,
who was granted right to use the city of Koprivnica coat of arms
as their emblem.
- Article
from 1974 report on city of Koprivnica clay souvenirs showing
the city arms in several versions - now made by Josip Praksi,
academic sculptor and custodian of the City Museum of Koprivnica.
- Another Article
from 1974 reprts on wood reliefs made by Josip Fluksi, City
Museum custodian, showing the coats of arms of Yugoslavia,
Croatia and two versions of Koprivnica coats of arms (1545 seal
and modern socialist version). the illustration shows the 1545
seal.
- Article
from 1981 about the 1545 seal of Koprivnica, showing it in
full.
- An interesting article
from 1983 is on a flag of local mountaineering society:
"Consectarion of a banner
To documet that the citizens of Koprivnica did not act much in
line of stabilization, let us serve the description of
consecration of the flag of the Croatian Mountaineering Society
"Podravac" on 7 October 1888. The patron was Baroness
Ljudmila Inkev Countess of Devin from Rasinja. The memorial book
of "Podravac" notes:
The consecration of a new wonderful flag was done with so far
unseen glamour in Koprivnica. The city magistrate granted 300
florins for the ceremony. The members of the association J. Res
and J. Rogina built free of chare a special stage for the singes
that could host numerous singers from all over Croatia and the
ceremony was to remember by all who were present.
Let us add the note Rudolf Horvat, the historian made: the flag
is 200 cm logng and 150 cm wide, produced in Vienna. On obverse a
harp is embroidered in gold and on reverse in gold and silver the
coat of arms of Koprivnica with the name of the society around
it. The flag is red-white-blue, ornamented with two streamers.
One streamer is blue with the name of patron embroideried, the
other is red inscribed with the year 1888. The coats of arms of
Baron Inkev and County Devin are embroidered on the
streamers. The staff for the flag was masterfully made
by carpenter Josip Rogina from Koprivnica. He and J. Res built
the singer's tample in the middle of the sity. The temple was 32
m long, 12 m wide and 9 m high, and could hold up to 1200 people
(!) ..."
Possibly the flag is today preserved in the City Museum?
- Article
from 1991 announces that the "next session" of the
city assembly shall adopt the new coat of arms and flag. The coat
of arms was to be similar to the previous one, but with the
socialist red star replaced with the 1545 original crown.
- Another Article
from 1991 reports on the adoption of the coat of arms and the
flag. Unlike the current coat of arms, the one adopted on 9 April
1991 included a "dark red tower" and grey wall in its
base, as well as white fleurs-de-lis. Beneath the twoer were
golden ornaments - folowing closely the 1545 seal model. The flag
was now first adopted, light blue with that coat of arms in the
middle. There is no drawing of that coat of arms available to me
yet.
The 1991 design of the coat of arms and the flag was made by
Josip Greguric. This coat of arms and flag were replaced in 1996
with the current design.
- Another Article
from 1991 reports that on 26 April the decision was adopted
in the second house of the local assemby.
- Another Article
from 1991 reports on the consecration ceremony for the coat
of arms and the flag and the ceremonial flag raising on 30 May
1991.
- It may well be that the 1991Greguric's design of the coat of
arms is the one shown on the ads
for beer of the local brewery "since now the Kaj beer with
the historical coat of arms of Koprivnica"!
- Another Article
from 1991 shows the flag consecration ceremony.
Unfortunatelly, quite hard to tell what kind of coat of arms is
in the flag on the photo...
- Article
from 1992 includes review of the museum experts journal
"Muzejski vjesnik" nr. 15, where among others is an
article by F. Horvatic about then new coat of arms of Koprivnica
by J. Greguric.
- Article
from 1994 reports from the session of the Koprivnica city
magistrate where it was decided to run a public concourse on the
for the "graphical standards of visual identity" of the
city, "since the coat of arms and flag already exists".
The next
issue includes the cocourse indeed - which describes the
required items - the coat of arms is not to be redesigned (it was
to be given to the interested parties as part of the concourse
materials).
- Article
from 1995 is on the Koprivnica city assembly session, where
the concourse on the visual idenitity is mentioned - the winner
was Romano Baricevic, who also designed a "logotype -
stylized coat of arms of Koprivnica with lilies, crown and
walls" - however, I do not think that this is redisign of
the coat of arms as such.
- In another Article
from 1995 we see the Baricevic's design of logos - obviously
not coats of arms.
- Another Article
from 1995 has an interesting interviw with Prof. Ivan Balta,
from the Osijek university, who lectures on heraldry and
vexillology there, who had some lectures in Koprivnica.
- Another Article
from 1995 includes a report that "on the redesign of the
coat of arms of Koprivnica, that must be done due to heraldic
reasons, we shall write subsequently" following the
discussion on that in the city magistrate. The next
issue includes a long article on the redesign of the coat of
arms, picturing both the "old historical coat of arms"
(which is I believe Greguric's 1991 design) and the "new
historical coat of arms" (unfortunately both in black and
white only). It mentions that Novigrad Podravski gained the
approval from the Ministry in the mean time, while Koprivnica did
not. The new design was made by Draženka Jalšic
Ernecic. The unwanted elements of design are named to be
"typical for posters and sphragistics" (among others
the not-enough expressive design of the crown and lilies and the
wiggly ornament in the base typical for seals), the tower may not
be red, so the two coloured (red-grey) tower on a white shield
shall be replaced... The text also mentions that an other element
from the original 1545 coat of arms is omitted in all
representations used since 20th cnetury - namely the Turkish
heads on poles atop the tower. The flag is again light blue with
this new design of the coat of arms and the ceremonial flag is
now introduced, as we report here.
Another Article
from 1995 includes information on discussion on the change of
design of the coat of arms of Koprivnica in the city magistrate -
who was informed on the necessity by Draženka Jalšic,
who also mentioned various changes of the coat of arms though
history. Among others, during the community period, after the
prohibition of its use in 1948, in mid-60's it was reintroduced
with the lilies replaced with the corn ears and the crown with
the star.
- Article
from 1996 includes a humorous item on the roorters and petty
quarels between the cities of Koprivnica and Djurdjevac and the County (and their
Coat of Arms, of course, all having roosters) - including also
several satirical poems. In another
issue, the story (and photo) presents an autochthonous type
of fowl whoose rooster is "even heraldically correct"
having golden-yellow feather lined with black (the story is
actually on local fowl expert, but it is a nice touch of local
political events at the time).
- Another article
from 1996 includes a story on the Koprivnica turist board
activities - where it is explained that the coat of arms of the
city is not used in their materials since it was not yet approved
for the use by the Ministry of Administration - namely that the
updated design by Draženka Jalšic is still "in the
queue" for the approval. However, an interesting photo is
there, with a cake picturing the controversial County arms
proposal. Another
issue gives us a hint that the problem in the Ministry with
the coat of arms of Koprivnica is the shield shape.
- Another article
from 1996 reprts that the Ministy approved the design of
Koprivnica coat of arms, following which the city magistrate
adopted it and it yet have to be formally adopted in the city
assembly. A large drawing of the city arms is provided here.
(Actually, the drawing is vertically mirrored from what I have as
the official drawing - the difference is only in vertical
hatching in the inner ring of the crown - a small difference, and
probably not easily solvable to which source is correct!)
- Another article
from 1996 reports that the Koprivnica coat of arms and flag
is finally formally adopted in the city assembly (including the
ceremonial swallow tailed flag). The artcile claims that the
ceremonial flag is swallow tailed in accordance with the
tradition of the old flags of the Panonian Croatia - this is
hardly arguable claim - the Panonian Croatia was one of the two
princedoms of early medieval Croatia (the other one was Littoral
Croatia), the two were united by Tomislav who then declared
himself a king of Croatia in early 10th century - we have no
slightest idea what the flags of Croats at the time might have
looked like...
- Another article
from 1996 include a photo showing quite clearly the flags of
Koprivnica and Križevci used in mid-1990's. Observe the
light blue flag with 1991 Greguric's coat of arms (it seems that
it is shown in single colour - which one, possibly red?) of
Koprivnica.
- Article
from 1997 mentions that the Koprivnica city statutes were
amended to include the determinations on the new coat of arms and
flag. Another
issue from 1997 includes photo shows a ceremonial table flag
of Koprivnica in use.
- Article
from 1998 is on the history of Koprivnica, showing among
other coats of arms - a nice and clear drawing of the 1545 seal
of the city.
- Another article
from 1998 is on on Draženka Jalšic, where she is
mentioned as designer of the coat of arms of Novigrad Podravski, Jasenovac (in the Sisak-Moslavina
County), Kloštar Podravski and
Koprivnica, among others.
- Article
from 2003 is on Andrija Kovac from Koprivnica, who, among
others, was involved in the redesign the coat of arms of the city
in 1968, in accordance with the customs of the period.
- Article
from 2005 brings report from the exhibition of the
fire-fighters flags held in Varaždin. The flag of the
Volunteer fire brigade Koprivnica is second oldest preserved in
Croatia, from 1875, shown in the exhibition, and is preserved in
the Koprivnica City Museum since 1954.
- Another Article
from 2005 is on the 1545 seal of Koprivnica, with yet another
nice drawing.
- Another Article
from 2005 is on the historical flags of Koprivnica. A flag of
the Free and Royal City of Koprivnica is preserved in Zagreb, but
damaged. It is or dark red silk picturing the city coat of arms
and inscription Civ(itas) Capro(nczensis) 1778. Other flags are
known to have existed as they are mentioned in the inventory
lists of 1834: "In the palace i.e. the assembly house are
two city flags, one of yellow silk, still in good condition, and
the other of blue silk, quite thorn."
Željko Heimer, 11 August 2009
The web site of the city now includes most of its previous
decisions from the official gazette, so also those interesting to
us. The original 1996 decision adopting the symbols was referred in
the 2002 decision as being from gazettes 1/96 and 2/96, but
actually it was issued in the gazette 6/96: Odluka
o grbu i zastavi Grada Koprivnice, 28.03.1996, Glasnik Grada
Koprivnice, br. 6/1996, 01.04.1996.
This now provides us with the adoption date 28 March 1996, but
also the document contains images of the coat of arms, flag and
the ceremonial flag. It invalidates a previous decision on the
coat of arms and the flag mentioned as "Odluka o grbu i
zastavi Grada Koprivnice, Službeni glasnik Opcine
Koprivnice, br. 3/1991".
I believe that this 1991 decision introduces a coat of arms and
the flag of design used since 1980's (with somewhat differently
coloured coat of arms in a different shield shape), but I have to
do some more research about this.
Then follows the 2002 decision which I reported already.
In 2008 a further decision made other minor changes to the
decision on the coat of arms and the flag: Odluka o izmjeni i
dopuni Odluke o grbu i zastavi Grada Koprivnice, 17.03.2008,
Glasnik Grada Koprivnice, br. 1/2008, 18.03.2008.
The coat of arms and the flag are described also in the 2005 and
2009 Statutes (and probably those preciding them that are not
available on line):
- Statut Grada Koprivnice (procišceni tekst), 14.06.2005,
Glasnik Grada Koprivnice, br. 4/2005, 14.06.2005:
- Statut Grada Koprivnice, 03.07.2009, Glasnik Grada Koprivnice,
br. 4/2009, 06.07.2009.
Željko Heimer, 20 December 2009
image by Željko Heimer, 5 January 2009
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image by Željko Heimer, 5 January 2009